PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • December 7, 2022
Scott Miller, a staff writer from PETA, states that lobsters have a sophisticated nervous system, like people. This is patently false. Lobsters have segmented ganglia (nerve clusters) to control most behaviors. There is no centralized brain, and there is no comparison to the brains of mammals – especially humans. Humans have about 86 billion neurons in their brain. Lobsters (and insects) have about 100,000 in the associated ganglia. A lot of available information would seem to contradict Mr. Miller’s assertion that lobsters are intelligent, complex creatures that establish social relationships. For Whole Foods to stop selling lobsters because of the industry being dropped from two sustainability labels is a knee-jerk reaction. Maybe they could have investigated the actual facts of this issue. ~ Michael Floyd, Long Island